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Ida Lupino was well-known to audiences as a movie star when she took a turn behind the camera on her uncredited directorial debut Not Wanted in 1949. The decade that followed was a highly productive period for Lupino: the dismantling of the studio system opened up new opportunities for independent filmmakers and the ascendancy of television created a bridge between Hollywood stars and the innovations of the small screen. She established, with her second husband Collier Young, the production company The Filmakers, and directed, co-wrote and co-produced five features, including The Bigamist (1953), in which she co-starred, while continuing to act in other people’s films. Television provided Lupino with the chance to extend her artistic vision further, as a director, producer and performer, across genres within the new medium.
In her new book, Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director's Chair, filmmaker and scholar Alexandra Seros reexamines Lupino's industrious and unique career, from actor to director, first in film, then in television. Interrogating archival materials from collections housed at UCLA and around the world, Seros situates this singular filmmaker and star within discussions of gendered labor in the film industry, the rise of consumerism in the United States after World War II, and the expectations placed on women in their family lives during the postwar era.
Join us for a trio of television programs exploring the multifaceted Ida Lupino, including the world premiere preservation of a noir television drama directed by Lupino.
This Is Your Life: “Ida Lupino”
U.S., 1/15/1958
With original commercials!
In this kinescope of a live broadcast, Ida Lupino breathlessly finds herself the unwitting honoree of Ralph Edwards’ immensely popular biographical television series. Host Edwards illuminates key milestones and introduces central figures in Lupino’s life, describing the pioneer as “Hollywood’s rarest talent, a woman producer-director.” The parade of special guests includes Lupino’s husband Howard Duff, their daughter Bridget Duff, and Academy Award-winning director William Wellman.
DCP, b&w, 30 min. NBC. Production: A Ralph Edwards Production. Producer: Axel Gruenberg. Director: Richard Gottlieb. With: Ralph Edwards, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff. Special thanks to Ralph Edwards Productions, Max Eckert, Bianca Pino.
Mr. Adams and Eve: "Howard and Eve and Ida"
U.S., 4/22/1958
New digital preservation from original 35mm negatives!
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff’s satirical sitcom elevates its lampoon of the couple’s real Hollywood life to meta heights with Lupino starring in a dual role as fictional TV star Eve Adams and herself — as a director defending her artistic vision. Lupino received two consecutive Emmy nominations for her work on the innovative two-season series, which was executive produced by her ex-husband Collier Young (producer of Lupino’s directorial features Outrage and The Hitch-Hiker).
DCP, b&w, 30 min. CBS. Production: Bridget Four Star Production. Producer: Warner Toub, Jr. Director: Richard Kinon. Writer: Louella MacFarlane. With: Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Alan Reed.
Digitally preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Paramount Pictures Archive. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, Pro-Tek. Special thanks to Andrea Kalas, Charlotte Barker, Graham Marshall. Audio preservation funded by the John H. Mitchell Television Preservation Endowment.
Special Screening: Restoration World Premiere of Lupino-directed Noir Television Drama!
Director: Ida Lupino
DCP, b&w, 30 min.
